Singer-songwriter Kimié (pronounced Kim-mi-Yay) Miner taught herself guitar at age 14, when she began writing her own songs and first toured with reggae star Barrington Levy at 19. She graduated from Kamehameha Schools in 2003 and attended the University of San Diego before taking the leap of faith to follow her first love – music – in Los Angeles. In the days before YouTube, Kimié self-produced three tracks and posted them on MySpace where they hit #1 in MySpace’s Unsigned Artist chart in the state of Hawai‘i.